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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- sew within
Meaning
Sabazios sews Dionysos into his thigh so that he may come to term (XLVIII.3). The compound makes the enclosure internal and embodied. It states a specific action in this hymn, not a general explanation of every double-birth epithet.
Places to read
- Hymn XLVIII · Line 3Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
ἐγκατέραψας
Occurrence inventory
1 in total. XLVIII.3